A reader writes:
Thanks for your posting on the Rubin/Abrams/retweet controversy. I agree fully – but what has surprised me in the discussion that has surrounded this is an earlier incident involving Abrams – wife of former NSC middle east director Elliott Abrams, one of three board members with William Kristol of the Emergency Committee for Israel, and sister of John Podhoretz – has gone completely unremarked.
Specifically, Abrams described a visit by herself and husband Eliot to some friends living in a West Bank settlement:
"But my husband and I get to have a brush with it. We sail through the checkpoint on the way back across the Green Line to Jerusalem, and almost immediately take a wrong turn. Though we have a GPS in the car, he hasn’t turned it on, because he knows where he’s going—and he’s making really good time getting there, too!! Eventually, he realizes he doesn’t actually know where he’s going, and he activates the guidance. Yet even with Robot Girl telling us what to do, we are lost on an unfamiliar road in a part of Jerusalem neither one of us recognizes. Uphill to our left is what looks like a techy office area; downhill to our right is the Zionist Racist Apartheid Wall.
As we pass along at warp speed I say out loud to Mr. Leadfoot, the only person within earshot, “Fuck you, Arabs!” Then rant on in my head so as not to further irritate an already irritated driver who hates getting lost and almost never does so: “This partition was their choice. They could have had their state sixty-three years ago, if only they’d accepted the original partition instead of going to war against the Jews. Blah, blah, blah.” I’d be pacing back and forth if not for being trapped in a car."
Now – imagine that the wife of a former NSC official with responsibility for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict writes a diary of driving with him through Israel, and states that she shouted out "F— you, Jews." She continues to sit as a board member of an advocacy organization with other prominent individuals, and her husband is never asked about the incident.
It is, of course, utterly inconceivable.
And the closed nepotistic circle of the neocons truly is a sight to behold. To think that these hateful nutcases are taken seriously in Washington reveals just how skewed our foreign policy is. Obama is trying to move past it – for the sake of America and Israel – but he was checkmated in his first term. One powerful reason to re-elect him is that he can try again.
The Dish 